CONCERNING
DIVINE
MYSTERIES
.
ROM.
12.
VER.
16.
Be
not
wise
in
your
owne
conceipts
.
NOT
to
trouble
you
with
any
tedious
Preface
:
The
Romanes
here
in
this
Chapter
may
seeme
vpon
their
new
enlightning
by
the
Gospell
,
not
rightly
to
haue
vsed
those
spirituall
endowments
which
they
did
therewith
receiue
.
For
otherwise
not
long
since
they
were
a
people
of
all
most
reprobate
;
so
farre
from
the
light
of
Grace
,
that
they
became
even
void
of
common
sense
:
What
the
Satyrist
speaketh
concerning
Eunuchs
in
that
they
are
dismembred
,
Quaerit
se
natura
,
nec
invenit
—
might
be
affirmed
of
them
in
a
more
proper
phrase
,
they
had
by
custome
of
sinne
lost
the
very
principles
of
reason
:
doing
those
things
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
which
are
against
nature
.
Rom.
1.
26.
But
now
at
length
through
an
especiall
calling
by
God's
grace
,
they
were
well
rid
of
that
wretched
estate
in
which
they
lay
;
being
insteed
thereof
indued
with
many
rare
gifts
both
of
the
will
&
vnderstanding
;
like
men
therefore
newly
recouered
from
out
the
dungeon
into
a
comfortable
sunshine
,
they
doe
not
moderately
enioy
this
so
vnwonted
a
light
,
but
with
too
much
exultancie
:
they
wax
proud
and
high
minded
:
Before
they
sinned
in
not
knowing
God
or
what
was
right
,
&
now
they
take
an
occasion
of
transgressing
from
the
abundance
of
their
knowledge
;
As
the
Apostle
speakes
of
leaven
1.
Cor.
5.
that
a
little
of
it
leaueneth
the
whole
lumpe
:
so
here
chiefly
by
a
little
selfe-conceipt
of
knowledge
,
all
their
other
graces
are
in
danger
to
be
corrupted
.
Saint
Paul
therefore
to
coole
and
allay
this
heat
of
ambition
is
very
diligent
:
first
he
adviseth
them
in
the
6.
v.
aboue
to
measure
themselues
by
their
proper
endowments
:
whither
(
saith
he
)
you
haue
receaued
the
gift
of
Prophecie
,
vse
prophecie
,
or
of
ministring
,
waite
vpon
your
ministery
:
In
the
beginning
of
this
16th
v.
he
biddeth
them
not
to
minde
high
things
:
not
things
which
might
serue
rather
to
increase
their
tumour
,
then
build
them
vp
in
the
spirit
.
And
lastly
he
presseth
them
with
the
words
of
my
Text.
Be
not
wise
,
&c.
Where
may
you
be
pleased
to
obserue
two
maine
parts
:
Be
not
wise
,
that
is
,
Be
not
wise
,
that
is
be
not
conceiptedly
lift
vp
in
minde
.
Wherevpon
I
shall
consider
the
weaknesse
of
humane
knowledge
;
&
how
at
leastwise
it
is
not
our
owne
,
but
from
God
:
Out
of
the
second
generall
,
whereas
it
is
denied
that
we
should
bee
wise
in
our
owne
conceipts
,
a
rule
or
square
may
be
thence
supposed
,
according
to
which
we
may
be
wise
,
and
that
I
define
to
bee
either
Scripture
or
Revelation
.
Of
these
in
their
order
,
and
first
of
the
profoundnesse
of
Divine
Mysteries
.
So
deepe
are
most
points
of
this
art
,
Quod
non
potest
comprehendi
(
saith
Lactantius
)
nec
quaeri
debet
:
if
mysteries
cannot
be
sounded
by
vs
,
neither
ought
they
at
all
to
be
discussed
;
It
is
true
that
whatsoeuer
may
conduce
to
our
happinesse
,
the
Lord
hath
revealed
most
gratiously
;
he
hath
giuen
vs
his
word
to
bee
our
guid
and
comfort
;
For
as
the
Israelites
were
in
the
vast
Wildernesse
,
so
are
we
beset
with
sinnes
and
errours
in
this
world
:
as
they
then
iournied
towards
the
earthly
Canaan
through
conduct
of
those
two
pillars
Exod.
13.
v.
21.
so
may
we
walke
safely
on
towards
the
heauenly
by
the
guidance
of
his
double
Testament
;
Nothing
there
is
that
may
help
to
further
vs
,
but
it
is
either
in
both
,
or
in
one
of
them
imparted
:
But
as
for
high
and
sublime
mysteries
the
Lord
hath
greatly
concealed
them
;
hee
hath
as
it
were
close
lockt
them
vp
:
For
suppose
he
did
communicate
and
lay
them
open
,
they
would
not
so
much
instruct
our
faithes
,
as
amaze
our
iudgements
.
Flashes
and
strictures
of
lightning
doe
indeed
enlighten
the
eye
,
but
by
reason
of
too
subtile
a
nature
they
doe
also
hurt
it
:
euen
so
mysteries
too
abstract
are
apt
to
dazle
the
weaknesse
of
reason
,
if
they
were
presented
vnto
vs
.
There
are
I
confesse
degrees
of
knowledge
:
the
spirituall
man
vnderstands
a
great
deale
more
then
the
carnall
:
his
eyes
be
newly
vnscaled
by
grace
,
as
once
S.
Pauls
were
:
but
it
is
touching
matters
of
saluation
or
faith
:
as
for
these
hidden
and
abstruse
points
he
is
still
dim-sighted
.
In
the
5th
of
the
Apoc.
v.
2.
t
is
said
,
who
is
able
to
open
the
booke
?
who
but
the
Lyon
of
the
tribe
of
Iuda
?
It
is
meant
of
the
booke
in
which
such
secrets
lie
coucht
,
and
infolded
;
where
you
may
note
,
that
wee
,
nay
the
best
of
God's
Saints
,
are
so
vnfit
to
expound
the
contents
,
that
wee
may
not
so
much
as
vntie
the
claspes
.
Now
the
reason
of
this
may
be
,
both
mans
dulnes
,
and
the
abstractnesse
of
these
points
;
as
for
man
,
he
is
of
an
vnderstanding
much
darkned
:
what
it
was
before
the
fall
,
whither
as
of
a
Viator
,
or
a
Comprehensor
,
or
mixt
as
Aquinas
Sum
:
P.
1a
,
Q.
104.
resolueth
,
it
matters
not
:
but
certainely
he
did
not
then
apprehend
supernaturall
things
more
fully
,
then
since
hee
doth
searcely
and
with
dimnesse
;
As
the
earth
is
,
so
are
the
earthly
,
of
a
dull
and
heauy
capacitie
,
reason
here
hardly
raising
it selfe
aboue
the
sense
;
David
acknowledgeth
in
this
regard
that
he
was
ignorant
,
nay
foolish
,
and
as
a
beast
,
Psal.
73.
Now
on
the
otherside
divine
mysteries
,
whither
they
concerne
God
in
his
nature
,
or
in
his
attributes
,
they
are
very
sublime
.
First
God
in
his
essence
he
is
so
pure
,
that
he
is
purity
and
abstractnesse
it selfe
:
as
the
eie
be
it
neuer
so
cleere
cannot
see
the
thinnesse
of
the
ayre
:
so
neither
can
the
eie
of
the
minde
truely
imbrace
the
purenesse
of
the
Dietie
,
because
wanting
as
't
were
a
solid
substance
wherevpon
to
fix
;
And
therefore
you
may
obserue
how
alwaies
it
falls
downe
streight
vpon
conceipts
more
grosse
and
earthly
;
I
am
that
I
am
is
my
name
,
was
once
the
instruction
of
God
vnto
Moses
,
Exod.
3.
v.
14.
and
let
him
be
still
what
he
is
:
it
is
impossible
that
hee
should
be
measured
by
mans
weake
braine
.
Much
lesse
may
that
sacred
diuision
of
the
Trinity
be
perceiued
;
how
three
persons
are
as
it
were
grafted
vpon
one
and
the
same
essence
:
what
the
Schoolmen
vrge
by
way
of
similitude
from
the
vnderstanding
,
memory
,
and
will
,
doth
but
badly
illustrate
the
cause
;
for
if
the
Father
begot
the
Sonne
as
the
power
of
the
vnderstanding
produceth
its
act
,
them
must
the
Sonne
beget
another
Sonne
as
being
with
the
same
power
indued
:
likewise
as
the
Spirit
is
produced
by
loue
,
so
shall
it
produce
againe
a
Spirit
by
loue
;
wherefore
this
instance
fals
short
of
a
due
resemblance
:
Yet
is
it
I
confesse
the
best
helpe
and
shadowe
for
expression
that
either
here
wee
haue
or
may
expect
:
Whilst
Moses
kept
vnvailed
,
Come
now
to
those
attributes
of
his
power
,
his
will
,
and
such
like
;
what
man
is
able
possibly
to
reach
them
?
Who
doth
not
streight
acknowledge
his
dulnesse
?
So
long
as
the
vnderstanding
meets
with
obiects
equall
and
befitting
it's
strength
,
it
doth
well
enough
;
but
the
hand
you
knowe
cannot
graspe
a
thing
bigger
then
it selfe
:
neither
can
a
finite
apprehension
throughly
conceaue
those
properties
,
as
being
infinite
:
it
doth
well
conceaue
that
they
are
infinite
but
not
the
infinitenesse
;
hee
is
as
high
as
heauen
what
can'st
thou
doe
?
deeper
then
hell
what
canst
thou
knowe
?
Iob.
11.
v.
8.
By
the
power
indeed
of
the
Almighty
was
this
round
world
framed
;
his
arme
and
strength
laid
the
foundation
of
it
,
no
man
doubts
:
but
cleerely
to
apprehend
the
manner
of
its
production
,
requires
more
then
a
finite
capacity
;
our
vnderstanding
is
not
able
to
passe
ouer
so
vast
a
distance
,
as
lyeth
betweene
an
vtter
nothing
,
and
the
newnesse
of
a
being
.
Saint
Paul
makes
it
an
act
of
faith
to
perceiue
this
,
Through
faith
wee
vnderstand
that
the
worlds
were
framed
,
Heb.
11.
3.
Yet
especially
are
those
mysteries
of
his
will
and
decree
most
abstruse
;
for
they
be
not
only
abstract
in
their
owne
nature
,
but
also
concealed
by
God
of
purpose
,
No
man
knoweth
the
things
of
a
man
saue
the
spirit
of
man
which
is
in
him
,
1.
Cor.
2.
And
a
prudent
man
(
saith
Solomon
)
concealeth
his
knowledge
,
Prov.
12.
v.
23.
Now
God
is
all
wisdome
,
and
for
this
must
be
as
secret
in
his
determinations
,
as
he
is
iust
and
vpright
;
whither
he
reprobates
men
absolutely
,
or
vpon
a
presupposed
fall
,
seemes
a
question
of
a
perplext
difficulty
:
Againe
,
whither
he
allowes
sufficiency
of
grace
to
all
or
not
,
't
is
easier
to
argue
,
then
finde
out
wherevpon
to
pitch
a
setled
assent
.
The
Aegyptians
to
declare
the
abstrusenesse
of
their
rites
did
place
vpon
the
forefront
of
their
Temples
the
picture
of
a
Sphynx
:
how
much
more
iustly
may
wee
doe
so
?
So
many
scruples
doe
occurre
in
the
bulke
of
diuinity
,
which
if
they
be
searched
vnto
the
bottome
,
they
far
surmount
humane
reach
.
I
let
passe
here
that
great
mystery
(
as
Saint
Paule
calls
it
)
of
Christ's
being
incarnate
;
that
of
the
last
restoring
of
our
bodies
,
both
which
for
their
seeming
impossibility
,
were
points
in
times
past
which
ancienter
professors
of
the
Christian
faith
did
most
hardly
digest
;
humane
reason
proued
so
incapable
to
entertaine
them
,
that
they
became
vnto
it
a
rock
of
offence
:
Neither
stand
I
to
inlarge
those
disputes
of
the
worlds
consummation
,
of
Antichrist
,
with
others
,
not
so
rightly
to
bee
tearm'd
doubts
as
riddles
;
Not
the
Angels
themselues
perchance
do
comprehend
them
,
as
being
of
that
rancke
into
which
they
doe
but
peepe
as
before
they
did
into
that
of
the
redemption
of
man
kinde
.
Mirandula
in
his
Apologie
much
extolleth
certaine
Cabalisticall
volumes
which
he
had
,
as
if
in
them
all
such
mysterious
doctrines
had
beene
darkly
comprized
;
for
(
saith
he
)
besides
the
holy
writ
,
God
did
so
provide
that
whatsoeuer
is
to
be
known
,
might
out
of
these
be
collected
by
the
more
wise
and
painefull
Iewes
:
which
his
opinion
he
groundeth
vpon
Esdras
.
Esdr
,
2.
14.
This
is
but
a
meere
fancy
,
yet
so
farre
it
agreeth
to
right
,
that
by
it
is
intimated
the
abstrusenesse
of
diuine
truthes
;
Out
of
whose
womb
commeth
the
yce
(
saith
the
Lord
)
Iob.
38.
or
,
hast
thou
entred
into
the
treasures
of
snowe
?
If
not
into
those
naturall
storehouses
of
yce
&
hayle
,
much
lesse
can
we
ascend
into
those
spirituall
ones
of
which
I
speak
:
Doubtlesse
they
are
more
remoued
,
and
being
heauenly
they
as
farre
exceed
the
compasse
of
mans
wit
,
as
the
heauen
is
diuided
from
the
earth
.
Neither
bee
these
alone
of
chiefest
moment
so
involued
,
but
lesser
also
and
those
which
we
perhaps
do
iudge
our selues
to
vnderstand
compleatly
;
But
that
of
Gods
prouidence
&
the
administration
of
the
world
,
may
seeme
to
haue
stagger'd
the
kingly
Prophet
:
how
the
wicked
should
still
flourish
,
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.
one
of
them
)
it
is
a
question
too
intricate
;
not
to
heape
vp
many
:
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Lib.
2.
Arnobius
in
the
controuersie
,
why
God
permits
sinne
,
sith
he
hates
it
,
yeeldeth
himselfe
in
a
manner
blanckt
.
If
any
shall
aske
why
divine
truthes
are
so
obscur'd
,
it
may
bee
they
are
reserued
to
augment
our
future
blisse
,
which
shall
consist
as
well
in
the
enlargement
of
our
knowledge
,
as
the
refining
of
our
wills
:
when
the
vaile
of
ignorance
is
to
be
taken
away
,
and
wee
shall
knowe
even
as
we
are
knowne
,
1.
Cor.
13.
or
perhaps
it
is
to
encrease
the
state
and
respect
of
them
;
for
men
doe
vsually
esteeme
that
with
greater
reverence
,
with
which
they
bee
not
so
throughly
acquainted
.
Vpon
this
ground
the
heathen
also
did
,
Howsoever
,
If
any
man
will
doe
(
Gods
)
will
,
hee
shall
knowe
of
his
doctrine
,
Iohn
17.
v.
17.
Take
but
Saint
Paul
for
an
instance
,
a
man
of
rare
excellency
;
one
who
had
beene
wrapt
vp
aboue
the
heauens
and
himselfe
:
yet
(
as
himselfe
doth
imply
)
he
heard
those
things
in
his
rapture
,
which
afterwards
he
did
not
well
conceaue
;
nay
in
the
argument
of
the
Iewes
reiection
,
and
calling
of
the
Gentiles
,
when
he
hath
driuen
it
to
a
head
as
neere
as
hee
can
,
he
meets
with
a
sea
vnfordable
;
hee
is
faine
to
sit
downe
as
it
were
vpon
the
banke
,
and
cry
out
,
O
the
depth
of
the
wisdome
and
knowledge
of
God
.
I
will
conclude
this
point
with
the
words
of
the
historian
;
When
men
walke
vpon
prerupt
and
steepe
places
,
Nicetas
Chomates
imagineth
)
was
nothing
but
an
allegory
or
figure
of
knowledge
.
Hence
in
their
posterity
such
lusting
after
nouelties
:
such
an
vnsatiate
curiosity
.
In
truth
to
asswage
this
humour
in
part
,
the
Lord
hath
wholly
exposed
all
the
creatures
to
mans
disquiry
;
as
it
is
said
of
the
Leviathan
,
Psalm
.
104.
that
God
hath
made
the
wide
Sea
for
him
to
play
in
,
that
is
to
expatiate
and
take
his
swinge
;
so
hath
he
as
it
were
made
this
lower
world
for
mans
delight
and
contemplation
;
he
may
roue
as
he
list
,
and
not
only
rest
in
the
outside
of
things
,
but
also
lawfully
diue
into
the
inmost
essence
.
But
for
Divine
mysteries
,
if
we
presse
too
farre
,
we
become
obnoxious
to
errors
&
slips
;
for
from
whence
sprang
heresies
of
old
in
the
Christian
world
,
but
from
this
fountaine
?
Whilst
men
in
the
search
of
truth
were
directed
rather
by
too
much
ambition
,
then
an
aduised
modesty
;
whilst
they
would
needs
be
tampering
beyond
their
skill
in
points
of
the
chiefest
moment
.
Hence
is
it
that
wee
finde
more
heresies
to
haue
arisen
concerning
those
two
greatest
mysteries
of
the
Trinitie
and
incarnation
,
then
about
all
the
rest
:
Arians
,
Nestorians
,
yea
most
sects
did
stumble
at
these
blocks
:
The
stomacke
when
it
meeteth
with
meats
hard
and
not
well
to
bee
digested
,
it
sends
vp
noxious
vapours
into
the
braine
:
euen
so
these
men
lighting
vpon
points
which
were
too
knotty
for
them
,
and
not
being
guided
by
discretion
,
insteed
of
doctrines
broached
their
wild
conceipts
:
For
this
cause
wee
finde
the
Fathers
euermore
cautelous
and
very
retir'd
.
Read
but
St
Hilary
in
his
2.
l.
See
before
the
entrance
of
his
dispute
concerning
the
Trinity
,
how
he
puts
on
,
and
then
falls
backe
,
venters
againe
and
recoyleth
as
fast
:
mihi
(
saith
he
)
in
sensu
labes
,
in
intelligentiâ
stupor
est
:
both
my
sense
and
reason
are
astonisht
.
The
good
Father
may
seeme
rather
to
haue
feared
a
surreptitious
curiosity
,
Such
was
their
religious
diffidence
in
these
matters
:
and
such
others
also
;
to
whom
I
could
wish
that
the
Schoolemen
were
not
vnlike
.
But
contrariwise
what
arrogancy
doth
wholy
possesse
them
?
How
respectlessely
doe
they
thrust
into
the
most
hidden
secrets
?
It
was
a
time
when
the
Lord
gaue
command
,
Exod.
19.
v.
12.
that
none
,
neither
man
nor
beast
should
touch
the
mount
where
himselfe
was
.
And
surely
there
is
great
reason
why
the
same
edict
should
bee
proclaim'd
againe
:
this
boldnes
of
some
wits
calling
too
nicely
into
dispute
,
those
mysteries
,
which
are
more
iustly
to
be
adored
;
Euer
and
anon
they
discusse
the
absolutenesse
of
their
makers
power
:
what
may
be
effected
by
it
,
and
what
not
:
sometimes
they
argue
his
freedome
and
will
,
and
happily
limit
it
with
some
vaine
distinction
:
Nay
so
audacious
are
many
,
that
except
they
sport
themselues
in
these
mysteries
they
be
not
contented
;
witnesse
for
instance
sake
those
queries
,
whither
God
be
materia
prima
,
and
,
whither
Christs
divinitie
might
not
suppositate
a
fly
:
which
&
such
like
doe
not
informe
the
minde
,
but
truly
wrong
the
maiestie
of
God
:
so
that
here
I
could
almost
applaud
that
sharp
censure
of
iudicious
Calvin
,
though
in
another
case
:
Neither
in
this
are
the
Arminians
lesse
to
bee
condemned
:
Who
hath
been
his
counsellour
?
saith
the
Prophet
concerning
God
,
Isa.
40.
13.
Whom
among
the
sonnes
of
men
did
he
choose
for
his
assistant
?
But
they
as
confidently
state
those
his
Acts
of
election
and
reprobation
,
as
if
they
had
themselues
decreed
them
:
they
soare
vp
on
high
euen
into
the
bosome
of
the
Almighty
:
men
oftimes
of
greater
reach
in
controversies
,
then
of
wisdome
or
discreetnesse
.
Our
Saviour
once
tooke
vp
Peter
,
Ioh.
21.
21.
but
for
that
frivolous
question
:
What
shall
this
man
doe
?
Hee
is
offended
with
the
Disciples
for
inquiring
too
narrowly
after
the
restauration
of
the
Iewish
estate
,
Act.
1.
6.
how
much
more
is
it
to
be
feared
that
hee
will
sharply
rebuke
those
forenamed
intruders
,
if
they
learne
not
betimes
to
curb
their
knowledge
;
Austin
in
one
of
his
Epistles
,
hath
a
pretty
allusion
of
a
certaine
passenger
falne
perchance
into
a
pit
:
Obsecro
(
saith
hee
there
so
falne
to
one
comming
to
his
rescue
)
quomodò
hinc
me
liberes
,
non
quomodò
huc
ceciderim
quaeras
:
stand
not
to
expostulate
with
me
how
I
slipt
in
,
but
rather
kindly
helpe
me
out
:
We
are
all
falne
through
Adam
into
a
wide
gulfe
of
vnhappinesse
;
let
vs
endeauour
to
recouer
our selues
:
let
vs
examine
rather
by
our
course
of
life
our
hopes
of
blisse
or
not
,
then
curiously
looke
it
in
the
first
decree
.
Our
sinnes
and
miseries
require
the
goodnesse
of
a
mediatour
:
as
for
a
Sophister
to
dispute
the
occasion
we
need
not
;
especially
since
,
as
Arminius
himselfe
concludeth
,
these
points
be
not
requisite
neither
to
be
knowne
or
beleeued
:
it
is
in
his
declaratione
sententiae
,
before
the
States
.
Yet
are
they
still
so
fraught
with
subtilties
,
that
the
very
pervsall
may
seeme
of
greater
danger
,
then
it
can
be
of
profit
.
How
often
see
wee
many
here
to
suffer
shipwrack
,
whilst
they
couet
to
goe
farther
then
their
ability
or
strength
will
permit
them
?
The
Prophet
David
Psal.
36.
compareth
the
iudgements
of
God
to
a
depth
,
or
an
abysse
.
Now
in
a
depth
as
long
as
we
can
finde
footing
,
we
be
well
and
safe
:
but
if
that
faile
,
a
feare
streight
seizeth
on
vs
of
being
plunged
:
thus
in
abstruser
mysteries
,
as
long
as
we
can
haue
the
help
of
reason
too
,
wee
may
wade
the
more
securely
on
:
but
when
that
once
is
swallowed
vp
,
Neither
doe
I
by
this
approue
the
lazie
dulnesse
of
any
:
not
of
such
who
thinke
it
acutenesse
sufficient
to
cry
downe
more
acute
disputes
.
Men
may
deseruingly
canvase
these
poinrs
,
if
they
shall
in
their
discourses
,
be
guided
by
reason
,
and
not
by
fancy
or
boldnesse
.
It
is
here
as
it
was
in
Ovid
his
Medea
;
a
matchlesse
Poem
(
saith
the
Rhetoritian
)
si
ingenio
suo
temperare
maluisset
,
a
fire
,
as
Deut.
4.
v.
24.
Ezek.
8.
2.
If
to
a
fire
wee
approach
not
too
nigh
,
it
comforteth
,
but
otherwise
it
burnes
and
scorcheth
:
so
here
concerning
diuine
matters
,
a
temperate
knowledge
instructeth
vs
;
but
a
superfluous
or
presumptuous
search
confounds
the
iudgement
.
I
will
close
vp
this
point
with
that
of
Salvian
.
Knowledge
indeed
is
the
very
light
of
the
soule
,
flaming
bush
,
to
which
notwithstanding
Moses
might
not
.
Now
of
this
there
is
no
greater
an
incentiue
cause
,
then
this
of
pride
;
when
men
doe
fauour
more
their
own
wit
,
then
the
iustnesse
of
the
argument
they
haue
in
hand
;
for
this
reason
you
may
note
how
errours
in
times
past
brake
forth
most
rife
in
the
Eastern
Churches
;
there
that
of
the
Novatians
,
Eunomians
,
first
tooke
root
,
and
indeed
what
not
?
Whereas
there
of
the
West
,
as
being
placed
vnder
a
duller
clime
,
so
were
they
for
heresies
lesse
disposed
.
The
Valentinians
(
saith
Iraeneus
)
were
men
qui
semetipsos
perfectos
,
&
vniversorum
agnitionem
habere
dicebant
:
they
deem'd
themselues
as
it
were
composed
of
wit
and
knowledge
;
neither
is
it
a
rare
sight
to
see
men
now
adaies
to
slip
from
pride
to
errour
:
whilst
not
being
seasoned
with
charity
,
they
swell
with
selfe
conceipt
.
Hence
the
Apostle
layeth
it
for
a
principall
and
main
ground
of
perverse
doctrines
,
1.
Tim.
6.
But
alas
,
what
is
the
highest
pitch
of
mans
science
?
or
wherein
doth
he
so
excell
,
but
in
that
he
may
bee
said
best
to
know
,
if
he
confesse
his
ignorance
;
Can
he
sound
the
true
depth
of
the
least
point
in
nature
?
is
he
able
to
satisfie
himselfe
in
any
triuiall
obiect
?
Looke
but
vpon
the
loadstone
,
and
thou
shalt
find
as
many
amazing
wonders
,
as
there
be
properties
.
Consider
the
remora
so
called
:
shew
mee
how
so
small
a
creature
doth
check
the
tallest
ship
in
its
full
course
:
view
the
curious
frame
of
mans
body
:
ponder
the
encrease
of
the
buried
seed
,
Scaliger
)
clamandum
est
nos
nihilscire
:
one
neuerthelesse
,
who
did
(
I
beleeue
)
iudge
as
charitably
of
himselfe
,
as
another
man
.
Reason
and
sense
be
the
only
or
chiefe
promoters
of
our
knowledge
in
this
world
;
now
these
for
the
most
part
,
are
as
subiect
to
errour
,
as
weak
in
their
helpes
;
whereby
it
hapneth
that
those
things
which
we
doe
vnderstand
,
we
know
but
in
the
rine
&
slightly
:
like
Aesop's
Fox
,
who
did
licke
the
outside
of
the
glasse
,
when
he
could
not
come
at
the
substance
.
As
for
tumor
then
and
height
of
conceipt
,
it
argueth
nothing
here
,
but
want
of
an
experienced
insight
:
the
very
claime
to
much
knowledge
proues
this
,
that
the
title
is
neither
good
nor
right
;
Saint
Paul
makes
it
a
principle
,
that
such
pretenders
,
at
least
wise
concerning
the
Christian
doctrine
,
were
but
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
meere
nouices
1.
Tim.
3.
In
the
6th
Ch.
he
couples
them
together
,
proud
and
knowing
nothing
v.
Hence
,
those
bitings
and
censures
against
others
:
such
malignant
vndervalewing
,
whereby
wee
lessen
our
brothers
name
that
wee
may
encrease
our
owne
;
livor
(
saith
Petrarch
)
Semper
lippus
est
:
this
humor
alwaies
is
ill
sighted
:
it
discerneth
not
of
worth
abroad
,
but
of
that
only
which
is
nigh
at
hand
,
nay
in
the
possessour
:
Although
so
ill
a
custome
doth
nothing
augment
their
repute
who
practise
it
.
The
moone
may
darken
and
eclips
the
sunne
,
but
withall
it
looseth
its
owne
light
:
and
they
by
deprauing
anothers
worth
,
make
their
owne
to
be
suspected
.
But
now
on
the
other
side
,
men
of
growth
and
good
proceedings
in
knowledge
bee
nothing
so
;
Moses
it
is
recorded
,
was
a
man
skilled
in
all
the
learning
of
the
Aegyptians
:
yet
afterwards
wee
finde
,
that
he
was
not
more
learned
then
meeke
&
modest
,
The
meekest
man
vpon
earth
Numb.
12.
v.
3.
In
truth
such
doe
well
conceiue
the
length
and
breadth
of
sciences
,
as
not
to
be
waded
thorough
;
they
are
so
far
from
nourishing
a
great
opinion
within
themselues
,
that
they
labour
also
to
beate
it
downe
elswhere
;
For
as
yet
we
know
but
in
part
1.
Cor.
13.
vpon
which
some
haue
made
this
obseruation
,
that
in
this
life
wee
obtaine
a
greater
likenesse
with
God
through
the
improuement
of
our
wils
,
then
by
that
of
the
reasonable
faculty
;
Holy
wee
may
bee
in
a
bigger
measure
,
then
we
can
be
wise
and
learned
.
But
suppose
thou
hast
attained
to
the
highest
top
of
all
science
:
that
thou
vnderstandest
as
much
as
angels
doe
,
what
hast
thou
,
that
thou
didst
not
receiue
,
and
if
thou
didst
receiue
it
,
why
dost
thou
glory
as
if
thou
hadst
not
receiued
it
?
Men
doe
not
vsually
boast
of
those
things
which
doe
outwardly
accrew
vnto
them
;
thence
he
in
the
tragedian
scoffingly
,
Qui
genus
iactat
suum
Aliena
laudat
.
it
must
be
something
of
their
owne
industry
and
atchieuement
that
pufs
them
vp
:
now
knowledge
,
it
is
chiefly
a
gift
of
Gods
benevolence
:
hee
giueth
to
one
the
power
of
tongues
:
to
another
the
vnderstanding
of
artes
;
and
to
all
as
best
him
pleaseth
.
I
speake
not
of
an
infused
science
;
not
of
the
ability
which
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
had
:
but
that
likewise
of
the
common
straine
may
seeme
in
a
peculiar
manner
to
proceed
from
God
;
Neither
yet
know
I
,
how
far
forth
here
he
affordeth
his
influence
,
by
what
concurse
:
onely
I
am
perswaded
that
he
doth
concur
vnto
this
by
a
more
speciall
aide
,
then
to
other
vertues
of
the
like
ranke
;
Euery
good
gift
,
&
euery
perfect
gift
is
from
aboue
.
Ia.
1.
17.
and
for
this
the
Philosopher
in
his
Ethicks
maketh
his
felicity
or
chiefe
good
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
gift
of
God
;
Now
there
is
no
endowment
of
the
minde
more
excellent
then
this
of
knowledge
;
it
is
the
eye
and
guide
of
the
rest
,
if
wee
doe
not
abuse
it
through
selfe-conceipt
:
if
,
as
venemous
beasts
wont
to
doe
by
nutriture
,
we
turne
not
that
to
poyson
and
our
hurt
,
which
of
it selfe
is
good
.
I
will
end
this
point
with
the
words
of
the
Apostle
:
If
any
man
thinke
that
hee
knoweth
any
thing
,
hee
knoweth
nothing
yet
as
he
ought
to
know
:
he
knoweth
not
according
to
sobriety
:
not
according
to
the
rule
of
holy
writ
and
reuealed
grace
,
which
is
my
last
point
.
Since
mans
speculations
and
fancies
of
themselues
are
so
extrauagant
,
God
hath
wisely
prouided
lawes
to
binde
them
withall
.
Now
lawes
(
saith
the
Emperor
)
bee
either
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
writs
&
promulged
,
or
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
namely
forcible
customes
,
As
for
the
word
it
is
a
treasury
full
of
most
rare
knowledge
.
There
are
who
hold
no
art
or
science
to
be
extant
,
which
is
not
at
least
wise
implicitly
contained
in
it
:
for
,
say
they
,
some
clauses
doe
here
appeare
of
each
faculty
:
some
prints
and
footsteps
.
On
this
manner
haue
Criticks
likewise
thought
all
Philosophy
to
ly
hid
in
Homer
,
and
iudge
him
as
various
an
artist
,
as
an
excellent
Poet.
Either
opinion
I
let
passe
,
though
not
as
vnprobable
,
yet
as
remote
from
my
purpose
;
Certaine
it
is
that
whatsoe're
may
ordinarily
beget
,
or
encrease
a
divine
knowledge
,
the
Lord
hath
amply
set
downe
in
his
word
;
For
he
hath
not
giuen
it
alone
to
conforme
our
wils
,
but
also
to
enrich
the
tables
of
our
vnderstanding
;
to
make
vs
wise
2
Tim.
3.
It
is
confest
to
be
a
kinde
of
science
,
as
farre
surpassing
the
rest
in
worth
,
as
divinity
doth
exceed
fraile
nature
.
Dauid
though
a
prophet
protesteth
that
hee
grew
thereby
more
wise
,
then
were
his
teachers
:
How
often
doth
he
pray
and
entreat
to
bee
fully
instructed
in
it
.
So
then
,
that
conceipt
of
the
Cardinall
L.
4.
De
verbo
Dei
,
is
but
a
meere
figment
;
as
if
things
of
common
need
,
were
comprized
therein
,
and
not
matters
of
peculiar
&
secret
vse
.
It
is
said
to
be
as
a
light
that
shineth
in
a
darke
place
2.
Pet.
1.
a
Candle
put
on
a
candlestick
Mat.
5.
15.
Now
a
light
so
placed
,
doth
not
lighten
only
the
open
rooome
,
but
every
nooke
and
corner
thereof
.
Nay
I
will
adde
,
it
is
an
armory
furnishing
the
zealous
disputer
with
proofes
against
so
blasphemous
tenents
;
a
garden
out
of
which
the
holy
dispenser
may
decke
vp
his
discourse
into
a
Prophets
phrase
;
what
things
are
of
necessary
and
a
sauing
vse
be
there
most
plainly
disclosed
;
others
indeed
but
dimly
;
whereas
the
word
growes
obscure
,
so
should
our
search
bee
more
cautelous
and
circumspect
;
wee
must
not
vent
our
coniectures
for
oracles
at
all
,
least
whilst
we
annex
such
glosses
,
we
corrupt
the
text
.
The
good
Samaritan
in
the
10th
of
Luke
deliuered
two
pence
to
the
host
for
the
wounded
traueller
:
two
pence
(
saith
Optatus
)
that
is
Christ
hath
bequeathed
vnto
vs
for
our
soules
health
both
lawes
,
the
old
and
the
new
;
He
promiseth
there
that
what
should
be
laid
out
more
,
if
not
lauishly
perchance
,
or
idely
,
he
would
see
it
discharged
:
so
may
wee
for
our
sober
disputes
,
either
vpon
or
besides
the
word
expect
a
recompence
;
but
if
they
appeare
superfluous
or
repugnant
,
they
be
no
longer
descants
,
but
sinfull
devises
.
Humane
inuentions
then
come
short
of
a
diuine
authority
:
they
may
serue
vs
for
illustrations
,
but
not
for
a
ground
and
rule
:
vpon
the
word
as
touching
that
efficacy
which
they
haue
,
must
they
be
builded
also
;
either
expresse
,
as
there
apparent
,
or
at
least
,
elicitiuè
,
as
being
thence
fairely
and
handsomly
deduced
.
If
wee
containe
within
this
compasse
wee
shall
bee
as
wise
as
safe
:
but
if
wee
fly
out
and
follow
our
fancies
,
it
remaineth
that
we
straight
vanish
in
them
.
For
euen
thus
did
that
lewd
rable
of
the
Gnostici
:
high
way
to
blisse
:
now
most
commonly
vpon
each
side
of
such
waies
there
bee
ditches
and
miery
bogs
:
so
here
on
either
hand
the
word
ly
heresies
and
numberles
errours
,
dangerous
to
bee
slipt
iuto
;
it
is
best
then
to
keepe
the
beaten
and
trodded
way
,
the
word
,
But
againe
;
sometimes
the
Lord
speaketh
as
well
by
Vrim
and
Thummim
,
as
hee
doth
in
the
written
word
:
for
he
hath
not
tied
himselfe
so
strictly
vnto
the
word
,
but
that
hee
can
,
if
he
please
,
vary
the
manner
of
his
communication
with
his
beloued
Saints
.
Our
Fathers
in
the
first
nonage
of
the
Church
,
well
vnderstood
the
benefit
of
this
;
a
dreame
or
vision
to
them
did
as
easily
cleere
each
doubt
,
as
either
their
owne
weaknesse
,
or
the
occurrency
of
businesse
could
suggest
it
.
But
to
auouch
the
truth
,
now
in
these
later
dayes
,
such
extraordinary
meanes
of
grace
bee
well
nigh
out
of
late
;
Prophecy
,
&
reuelation
,
&
tongues
,
with
other
gifts
,
we
finde
conioyn'd
1
Cor.
12.
Since
as
there
appeareth
no
miracle
of
tongues
or
prophecy
,
neither
is
it
to
be
beleeued
that
revelations
are
very
frequent
;
Hauing
Moses
and
the
Scriptures
,
wee
may
not
expect
new
messages
from
the
dead
,
nor
yet
from
aboue
;
Calvin
is
confident
to
vpbraid
Such
pretended
Enthusiasts
with
downeright
madnesse
:
minus
errore
agitantur
,
quam
rabie
;
they
be
not
(
saith
hee
)
so
much
mistaken
as
quite
distracted
,
when
as
therefore
I
make
reuelation
a
rule
of
our
wisdome
,
it
is
indeed
in
it
felfe
,
but
not
so
vsually
if
we
respect
the
present
age
;
it
is
if
it
were
,
but
this
no
way
causeth
it
to
be
:
Our
best
Enthusiasmes
now
must
bee
our
prayers
and
diligence
in
the
sacred
word
.
Trie
then
at
least
wee
must
the
spirits
as
St
Iohn
warneth
vs
,
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
if
hauing
examined
such
inspirations
by
the
touch
of
sacred
writ
,
wee
finde
them
accordingly
;
a
rule
they
may
be
;
yet
here
againe
you
must
note
,
what
reuelations
I
meane
;
not
new
&
vnheard
of
respectu
doctrinae
reuelatae
,
as
the
Papists
would
,
lessening
thereby
the
sufficiency
of
the
word
:
but
new
respectu
actus
reuelandi
:
such
onely
as
informe
vs
in
matters
of
fact
,
not
encrease
the
Canon
of
our
faith
:
such
alone
may
be
the
guide
of
the
wisdome
here
discussed
.
The
summe
of
all
that
hath
beene
spoken
hitherto
is
this
.
It
is
to
be
wished
that
we
had
no
occasion
to
deale
vpon
such
deepe
mysteries
at
all
;
since
our
life
is
fraile
,
and
our
ayme
eternall
blisse
,
it
were
expedient
that
we
endeauoured
more
to
become
pious
,
then
subtill
and
acute
;
Epictetus
the
Stoicke
could
once
complaine
of
his
time
;
whereas
(
saith
he
)
there
be
two
parts
of
Philosophy
:
the
first
and
more
especiall
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
practise
of
wholsome
precepts
well
digested
:
the
second
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
;
a
speculatiue
and
curious
disquiry
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
we
haue
quite
inuerted
the
course
.
How
many
now
a
daies
frame
their
diuiner
studies
after
this
method
?
How
doe
they
chiefly
intend
sublimer
,
though
fruitlesse
controversies
;
yea
and
moreouer
,
which
is
as
bad
,
oft
times
those
here
vndertake
these
points
,
whose
shoulders
for
such
a
burden
be
most
vnfit
.
Fight
ye
not
with
small
or
great
saue
onely
with
the
king
af
Israel
,
was
the
charge
of
the
Syrian
king
to
the
Captaines
of
his
host
,
2.
Chron.
18.
Even
so
there
be
who
as
soone
as
they
can
but
spell
in
diuinity
,
fasten
alone
vpon
the
greatest
difficulties
;
whereby
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
they
cleere
not
the
doubts
which
they
take
in
hand
,
but
rather
betray
their
owne
weaknesse
.
Or
secondly
,
since
by
reason
of
our
insulting
adversaries
on
either
side
,
some
must
needs
looke
into
these
points
,
it
is
meete
that
wee
dispose
our selues
with
a
graue
consideration
of
this
afore
hand
;
Daniel
before
he
receaued
those
strange
visions
,
fasted
three
whole
weekes
,
Aegyptian
Priests
went
to
prepare
themselues
for
their
supposed
Enthusiasmes
with
musicke
and
abstinence
;
I
vrge
not
this
for
example
sake
,
but
only
to
shew
with
what
reuerence
we
should
addresse
our selues
to
so
diuine
a
taske
:
not
rudely
setting
vpon
it
,
but
with
mature
aduice
:
Besides
in
the
enterprize
it selfe
,
let
vs
vse
great
sobriety
,
avoiding
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
2.
Tim.
2.
or
nice
acutenesse
:
a
fault
vnseemly
each
where
,
as
well
in
religion
,
as
in
other
arts
:
for
which
Minerva
is
feigned
to
hate
the
Spider
,
because
she
spinneth
too
curious
a
web
.
In
a
word
let
vs
evermore
submit
fancie
to
reason
,
&
reason
to
faith
,
both
to
Gods
word
,
or
his
especiall
revelation
.
These
two
be
that
helping
glasse
of
our
knowledge
here
,
or
double
spectacle
,
of
which
Saint
Paule
speaketh
.
Now
wee
see
through
a
glasse
darkely
,
but
then
face
to
face
.
And
thus
I
haue
,
though
weakly
,
made
vp
a
discourse
concerning
Divine
Mysteries
,
and
our
knowledge
of
them
.
A
Text
in
my
indgement
,
as
befitting
this
auditory
,
as
my selfe
,
for
this
my
first
assay
.
Wee
sit
all
here
by
the
well-spring
of
Wisdome
and
science
,
&
most
of
vs
may
hereafter
serue
at
the
altar
in
Gods
owne
house
.
It
is
not
amisse
that
we
know
our
limits
,
as
also
consider
our
strengths
.
Vnder
the
old
law
the
Levite
might
goe
farther
into
the
Temple
,
then
the
Lay
,
and
a
Priest
then
the
Levite
:
so
in
these
points
concerning
the
mysticall
temple
,
Apoc.
21.
22.
One
may
wade
farther
then
another
:
but
as
there
none
could
enter
into
the
chiefest
sanctuary
,
saue
onely
the
high
Priest
:
so
neither
here
hath
any
full
accesse
,
into
the
secrets
of
these
mysteries
,
but
only
our
high
Priest
and
Saviour
Christ
:
In
whom
are
hid
all
the
treasures
of
wisdome
and
knowledge
,
Colos.
2.
3.
As
for
vs
as
long
as
we
abide
in
this
life
,
we
must
be
satisfied
with
a
meaner
knowledge
of
such
things
:
with
certaine
glympses
at
most
:
like
benighted
travailers
,
who
if
the
moone
hap
to
be
ouerclouded
,
are
content
with
star-light
.
Now
to
the
only
wise
God
,
who
is
able
to
doe
aboue
that
which
we
can
either
speake
or
imagine
,
be
ascribed
all
glory
,
power
,
praise
,
and
dominion
this
day
and
foreuer
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.
TOVCHING
CHVRCH-SCHISMES
.
ROM.
16.
VER.
17.
Brethren
marke
them
which
cause
divisions
and
offences
,
contrary
to
the
doctrine
which
yee
haue
learned
and
avoid
them
.
SCarcely
had
our
Apostle
here
laid
the
grounds
of
Christian
religion
,
but
it
presently
meetes
on
each
side
with
strong
opposers
.
The
Diuell
was
straight
wayes
ready
to
excite
erroneous
and
factious
spirits
against
the
truth
.
What
Poets
faigne
of
hate
and
contentions
beside
their
Iupiter's
palace
,
Eager
debates
closely
still
as
't
were
environ
the
Church
.
Alwaies
there
bee
who
like
the
Dragon
,
Apoc.
12.
4.
are
ready
to
devoure
it
euen
in
its
birth
.
Neither
yet
doth
this
so
inbred
enmity
betwixt
the
patrons
of
truth
and
errour
,
happen
without
God's
especiall
allowance
.
For
,
first
hereby
hee
sifts
and
winnowes
all
alike
.
As
many
as
settle
firmely
together
he
takes
for
solid
graine
:
but
those
who
are
carried
away
with
each
blast
of
new
doctrine
,
for
fruitlesse
chaffe
.
They
neuer
were
sincerely
orthodox
,
but
either
temporizing
formalists
,
or
at
most
coldly
devoted
.
Againe
by
this
he
keepes
his
elect
from
rust
and
an
over
secure
ease
:
out
of
loue
hee
permits
them
not
to
slumber
in
such
a
tranquility
as
might
at
length
produce
some
hurtfull
effect
.
Calamitas
(
saith
he
in
Minutius
)
virtutum
disciplina
est
:
Crosses
and
all
kinds
of
opposition
,
doe
not
so
much
afflict
Gods
Saints
,
as
truely
exercise
them
.
Thus
doth
the
Lord
effect
the
good
of
his
chosen
by
the
hands
of
malignant
Schismaticks
.
But
notwithstanding
though
he
deale
so
in
prouidence
,
yet
their
offence
and
guilt
is
nothing
thereby
abated
.
For
in
the
third
to
the
Philipp
.
the
Apostle
plainely
affirmeth
such
to
be
evill
workers
,
very
dogges
.
v.
3.
In
the
18th
v.
he
termes
them
enimies
of
the
crosse
of
Christ
,
whose
end
is
destruction
,
v.
19.
and
here
in
my
Text
,
he
iudgeth
them
vnworthy
euen
of
the
solace
and
benefit
of
humane
commerce
.
Brethren
marke
them
which
&c.
My
Text
,
contrary
to
some
doctrine
afore
learned
.
thirdly
the
persons
or
those
,
who
cause
them
.
Fourthly
,
the
manner
how
such
disturbers
must
be
delt
with
:
First
marke
,
then
avoid
them
.
Lastly
,
on
the
other
side
,
the
entire
and
mutuall
agreement
among
true
professors
,
or
as
it
is
here
their
brotherhood
.
Of
these
orderly
in
that
method
I
haue
proposed
,
and
first
concerning
divisions
and
offences
themselues
.
There
is
nothing
which
doth
more
preserue
the
world
in
being
then
vnity
and
agreement
.
One
Lord
,
one
Faith
,
one
Baptisme
,
wee
finde
commended
,
Ephes.
4.
5.
As
in
the
structure
of
the
old
tabernacle
,
by
loopes
&
taches
were
the
curtaines
aptly
conioyned
:
so
in
the
antitype
,
namely
the
Church
,
doth
this
spirit
of
Vnity
diffusing
it selfe
throughout
the
parts
,
knit
them
vp
into
an
entire
frame
.
This
being
so
;
sithence
each
where
a
concord
is
so
requisite
,
but
most
in
the
Church
,
how
fowly
doe
they
trespasse
that
breake
this
bond
?
with
what
sharpnesse
deserue
they
to
be
handled
who
breed
diuisions
?
The
Fathers
amidst
their
writings
doe
presse
no
one
point
more
frequently
or
eagerly
then
this
;
Every
where
they
take
occasion
,
after
St
Pauls
manner
,
as
well
to
condemne
all
rents
and
Schismes
,
as
extoll
a
Christian
like
accord
.
Optatus
in
a
word
makes
such
diuisions
Summum
malorum
,
a
crime
so
heinous
,
as
that
none
can
match
it
.
And
indeed
if
you
rightly
weigh
the
examples
of
Gods
wrath
and
punishments
,
you
will
not
much
mislike
his
iudgment
.
In
the
4th
of
Gen.
when
Cain
had
slaine
his
brother
,
God
onely
markes
him
and
lets
him
goe
:
nay
hee
is
iealous
least
any
might
kill
Cain
,
v.
15.
To
that
great
and
sacrilegious
city
of
Ninive
what
doth
he
?
Only
Ionas
is
sent
to
teach
and
warne
them
.
Insteed
of
ruine
comes
a
gentle
embassage
.
But
for
Corath
and
his
complices
,
those
mutiners
in
the
tribe
of
Levi
,
behold
a
suddaine
destruction
:
the
earth
openeth
and
entombes
them
aliue
;
whence
it
followes
not
without
some
shew
of
probability
,
that
Church-Schismes
more
displease
the
Lord
,
then
either
murther
or
sacrilege
.
Austin
yet
goes
farther
;
for
in
his
50th
Ep.
discoursing
about
the
obstinacy
of
the
factious
Donatists
,
he
chargeth
them
with
no
lesse
a
sinne
,
then
with
that
of
the
holy
ghost
.
But
the
heinousnesse
of
divisions
will
better
appeare
,
if
we
examine
them
,
First
in
their
obiect
.
It
is
no
slight
or
vulgar
argument
;
perchance
in
the
disquiry
of
such
points
,
dissent
may
afford
greater
profit
,
namely
by
exercising
the
wit
,
then
a
present
accord
.
But
it
is
religion
,
that
prop
of
mans
conscience
,
and
path
to
blisse
.
Vpon
this
narrow
way
doe
men
lye
daily
striuing
and
iustly
in
opinions
,
not
without
much
hindrance
in
their
intended
iourney
.
Religion
indeed
of
it selfe
is
rather
a
ground
of
common
agreement
:
Religio
thinke
some
a
religando
from
binding
the
hearts
of
the
professors
,
as
well
in
a
mutuall
affection
,
as
in
obedience
to
God
:
yet
if
happily
it
bee
made
the
subiect
of
strifes
and
debates
,
they
no
where
burne
more
fiercely
,
nullae
infestae
hominibus
bestiae
,
(
could
Ammian
:
Marcellinus
an
heathen
say
)
vt
sunt
sibi
ferales
plerique
Christiani
.
No
beasts
are
so
violent
,
as
Christians
be
,
when
once
they
iarre
in
points
of
doctrine
.
The
reason
may
bee
;
men
for
the
most
part
hug
their
peculiar
tenents
with
a
too
ouerprizing
loue
.
And
as
they
doe
thus
in
all
other
arts
,
so
especially
in
matters
of
Christianity
&
faith
.
Having
then
fancied
some
opinion
here
as
greatly
appertaining
to
the
soules
health
,
they
must
necessarily
abhorre
those
who
so
ere
oppose
it
.
Next
in
a
second
place
consider
the
vsuall
and
hurtfull
diffusion
of
Schismes
.
Simon
Magus
his
doctrine
that
first
hereticke
.
Lastly
consider
their
irksome
and
long
continuance
:
how
they
persist
not
for
a
day
or
yeare
,
but
commonly
for
length
of
ages
.
It
were
some
happinesse
if
as
easily
as
they
burst
forth
and
ouerflow
,
they
could
as
quickly
bee
stopped
.
Those
tares
,
Mat.
13.
v.
24.
sprang
vp
on
a
sudden
:
but
as
for
the
extirpation
and
rooting
them
vp
,
wee
finde
it
deferred
till
the
great
haruest
.
Errors
in
truth
are
by
nature
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
very
obstinate
;
what
once
is
vented
falsely
,
is
here
maintain'd
,
if
but
for
credits
sake
.
As
much
as
wants
in
strength
and
cleerenesse
of
argument
,
they
supply
with
a
colour
of
perseuerance
;
giue
them
leaue
to
take
but
root
,
they
will
flourish
of
themselues
,
without
either
watring
or
attendance
:
so
that
as
Sulla
spake
of
warres
,
sumi
facile
,
caeterum
acerrimè
de
sinere
;
the
same
is
true
of
refractory
Schismes
.
Any
man
neuer
so
meane
,
may
sow
a
fond
opinion
:
but
to
represse
and
curbe
it
seemes
a
taske
of
the
highest
skill
.
You
haue
heard
briefly
concerning
diuisions
in
grosse
;
how
execrable
they
bee
whether
you
attend
their
obiect
or
boundlesse
diffusion
;
but
chiefly
for
their
long
and
obstinat
continuance
:
cleauing
almost
as
lastingly
to
the
Church
,
as
the
leprosie
did
to
the
house
of
Gehazai
;
This
is
there
condition
,
this
their
nature
:
It
followeth
methodically
in
my
2d
point
,
that
I
handle
their
especiall
property
,
which
is
to
be
contrary
to
some
doctrine
afore
learned
.
Euery
art
and
faculty
hath
some
maine
ground
to
rely
vpon
:
First
the
Heretique
,
as
subornde
with
a
bolder
malice
,
is
wont
more
directly
to
oppose
the
very
text
.
In
former
times
we
finde
them
so
impudent
as
that
they
durst
change
and
mangle
it
as
seemde
them
best
;
witnesse
the
Cerinthians
,
Marcionists
,
with
the
rest
of
that
franticke
crew
;
not
enduring
so
pure
a
light
should
shine
vpon
their
monstrous
blasphemies
,
they
either
wrongfully
concealed
it
vnder
a
bushell
,
or
quite
renounc't
it
;
Indeed
the
Papists
now
a
more
refined
ofspring
,
deale
with
greater
caution
;
yet
in
effect
they
performe
as
much
,
whilst
they
groundlesly
enlarge
the
sacred
Canon
,
or
else
countenance
against
it
their
idle
traditions
;
for
by
adding
superfluously
vnto
the
old
,
what
doe
they
lesse
then
create
a
new
word
;
Thus
doe
Heretiques
some
way
still
infringe
the
text
:
But
now
for
Schismaticks
they
meddle
in
those
points
which
fall
more
properly
within
the
Churches
verge
;
And
here
they
vary
and
swarue
from
the
right
on
either
hand
;
vpon
one
stand
such
as
conspiring
with
vs
in
doctrinall
grounds
,
differ
onely
touching
the
outward
surface
:
As
children
who
otherwise
mutually
well
disposed
,
yet
wrangle
about
their
nuts
&
toyes
.
Those
more
neerely
concerne
my
drift
,
who
impugne
some
reall
points
of
doctrine
.
Now
some
doe
this
expresly
and
without
a
glosse
.
Before
Arminius
let
loose
his
tenents
,
he
first
questions
openly
the
Belgicke
Catechisme
:
Consentaneum
rationi
,
&c.
it
is
meet
(
saith
he
)
and
very
expedient
that
such
Constitutions
be
newly
reuewed
.
As
long
as
they
stood
fast
and
plausible
,
well
he
knew
his
acuter
doctrine
could
hardly
gaine
entrance
;
But
as
the
Lord
commands
touching
land-markes
Deut.
10.
v.
24.
not
to
remoue
them
,
because
they
haue
there
beene
anciently
erected
:
so
in
Church
affaires
't
is
best
that
old
and
authenticke
decisions
doe
still
prevaile
;
Are
wee
wiser
then
our
Fathers
?
Or
is
our
vnderstanding
beyond
the
ancients
?
If
in
a
common
weale
as
the
Philosopher
noteth
,
former
lawes
should
not
hastily
giue
place
to
new
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
least
by
often
changing
their
respect
be
somewhat
impaired
;
Others
at
least
in
shew
approue
the
receiued
Cannons
,
but
no
otherwise
then
for
their
own
advantage
;
vnder
pretext
of
those
generall
rules
they
vent
some
priuate
and
moderne
conceipts
.
It
was
a
diuise
(
saith
Seneca
)
concerning
his
times
of
many
lewd
and
riotous
liuers
,
to
cloake
their
luxury
by
pretending
to
the
Epicurean
sect
.
Thus
they
shrowd
their
wrong
and
false
opinions
in
the
Churches
bosome
;
not
deriving
a
meaning
from
thence
,
but
fastning
there
one
vpon
it
;
how
much
better
were
it
,
if
they
left
the
Cannons
free
and
still
vnbounded
.
For
by
thus
drawing
them
downe
into
a
more
particular
sense
,
they
haue
troubled
the
Church
with
needlesse
disquiries
;
Constantine
the
geeat
speaking
vnto
the
Nieene
counsell
,
is
bold
to
call
those
disputes
betweene
Arius
and
Alexander
,
Well
then
:
let
both
principles
of
Church
tenents
&
Scripture
stand
in
force
;
as
Aarons
rod
eat
vp
those
wherewith
the
Aegyptians
contended
,
they
will
discountenance
and
consume
any
vpstart
issue
of
falshood
;
for
by
the
way
you
may
note
:
errors
and
truth
doe
not
spring
vp
alike
;
this
leasurely
and
with
a
lingring
encrease
:
that
hastily
like
the
sunne
in
his
westerne
course
,
which
cuts
most
nimbly
about
the
line
:
but
as
there
the
sunne
proceeds
but
slowly
in
degrees
farther
distant
:
so
here
doe
errors
after
their
first
bruit
and
flourish
:
if
the
ancient
grounds
be
still
vpheld
:
if
we
retaine
this
defence
to
withstand
their
onset
.
I
haue
shewed
you
the
maine
property
of
Schismes
;
a
dangerous
quality
,
you
see
,
in
a
Christian
estate
;
for
as
Sampson
did
to
ouerwhelme
the
Philistins
Iud.
18.
29.
it
puls
away
both
Pillars
wherevpon
the
Church
is
founded
.
Now
afterwards
you
haue
thus
had
their
property
,
it
remaines
that
in
my
third
point
I
decypher
their
subiect
,
to
wit
the
persons
or
those
which
cause
them
.
It
is
true
that
as
the
Lord
hath
planted
a
vineyard
;
wisdom
.
Iam.
3.
13.
Neither
yet
as
I
said
want
they
outward
fewell
to
encrease
,
this
inbred
aptnesse
.
First
here
occurs
an
hope
of
honour
&
advancement
;
Alcimus
1
Mac.
7.
affected
the
high-priesthood
,
hee
calls
in
the
Syrians
to
backe
his
suite
,
not
without
extreame
hazard
of
the
Iewish
estate
:
no
otherwise
doe
they
:
rather
then
misse
of
dignities
,
they
'le
endanger
the
Church
with
forren
tenents
;
any
way
shall
helpe
,
before
they
will
sit
vntitled
.
We
reade
of
Arrius
as
otherwise
of
a
good
&
honest
man
;
his
fault
was
somewhat
too
aspiring
a
minde
.
It
is
so
with
most
:
they
square
not
their
drifts
by
religion
,
but
religion
by
their
drifts
of
eminency
or
profit
.
Secondly
by
this
,
as
they
conceaue
,
they
much
enhance
their
fame
.
To
bee
the
author
or
revivour
of
some
nicer
Doctrine
must
needs
seeme
a
master
peice
of
no
vsuall
knowledge
;
Indeed
the
Apostle
himselfe
Rom.
15.
29.
forbares
to
build
the
Gospell
vpon
grounds
forelaid
.
This
hee
did
to
avoide
emergent
scandals
,
but
they
for
by
respects
:
least
they
bee
thought
a
meere
accession
of
anothers
wit
or
credit
.
Yet
here
obserue
their
grosse
mistake
;
Truth
saith
the
Philosopher
as
likewise
vertue
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
a
thing
of
small
and
narrow
extent
;
But
as
for
errors
,
they
ly
in
multitudes
and
troupes
round
about
;
If
then
in
so
vast
a
number
of
fashoods
,
they
pitch
vpon
one
what
glory
is
it
?
If
missing
the
center
they
pricke
each
part
of
the
circle
else
?
To
bolt
an
errour
then
is
no
hard
exploit
;
And
as
its
beginnning
is
thus
prompt
and
easy
,
so
also
is
the
maintaining
of
it
once
begun
;
Insooth
falshhood
in
point
of
religion
commonly
someway
toucheth
vpon
the
deepest
mysteries
;
it
will
be
sure
of
a
cause
pregnant
enough
wherein
to
deale
:
Pelagianisme
how
doth
it
in
close
those
large
queries
concerning
gods
power
and
hidden
decree
?
As
therefore
marriners
wont
for
to
say
,
giue
them
winde
and
Sea
roome
they
feare
no
shipwracke
:
so
in
such
open
and
boundlesse
disputes
,
it
may
argue
a
shallow
braine
that
is
quickly
graueled
;
if
nere
so
prest
he
finde
not
still
scope
as
well
to
decline
the
aduersary
,
as
to
reinforce
his
tenents
.
A
last
incentiue
here
may
bee
an
itching
desire
in
men
of
seeming
actiue
;
rather
then
rest
vnbusied
,
they
will
doe
some
vnnecessary
mischiefe
.
It
pleaseth
them
greatly
in
their
pride
of
wit
to
behold
those
combustions
which
themselues
haue
caused
.
The
associates
of
Catiline
in
his
conspiracy
against
Rome
were
the
more
forward
,
vt
quiet
a
mouerent
:
that
at
least
they
might
vnsettle
a
state
so
well
composed
;
many
endeauour
a
disturbance
of
the
christian
peace
for
no
serious
intendment
:
they
raise
debates
that
they
may
bee
said
to
haue
raised
them
;
like
hote
furious
spirits
abroad
,
who
delight
soly
in
fights
and
vproares
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
meere
louers
of
strife
.
Vpon
these
motiues
fore
cited
doe
Schismaticks
chiefly
vndermine
the
Churches
vnity
;
men
otherwise
oftimes
of
no
meane
esteeme
and
worth
.
But
as
it
was
said
of
Curio
the
tribune
,
that
he
was
facundus
sed
malo
publico
:
euen
so
they
in
truth
seeme
able
and
sufficiently
learned
,
but
it
is
to
the
Churches
annoyance
:
whilst
they
imploy
those
gifts
perversly
,
with
which
they
might
haue
aduanced
the
common
good
.
Yet
also
giue
me
leaue
,
if
a
little
I
misdoubt
such
:
if
I
iudge
them
not
throughly
sound
at
heart
;
In
13.
Nehem.
v.
33.
where
the
Israelitish
parents
mix
with
the
women
of
Ashdod
,
the
children
speake
an
vncertaine
idiome
:
halfe
the
Ammonitish
language
;
and
halfe
the
Iewish
;
examine
their
tracts
and
discourses
aright
,
they
may
seeme
the
issue
of
a
mixt
faith
.
Religion
if
once
ambiguous
cannot
choose
but
betray
it selfe
;
some
sparkles
will
here
breake
forth
,
though
neuer
so
carefully
supprest
;
wherefore
as
Iosuah
asked
the
angell
Ios.
5.
v.
13.
art
thou
for
vs
or
for
our
aduersaries
?
Let
me
likewise
demand
;
whose
part
take
they
?
for
now
by
walking
so
doubtfully
and
in
a
mist
,
they
merit
applause
from
neither
side
;
more
reason
there
is
that
they
bee
refused
of
both
;
Saint
Hierome
somewhere
speaking
touching
such
neutrals
the
Hebionites
,
Dum
volunt
(
saith
he
)
&
Iudaei
&
Christiani
esse
,
nec
sunt
Iudaei
nec
Christiani
:
whilst
they
hang
betweene
two
sects
,
they
deserue
to
bee
ranked
no
where
:
meere
batts
in
religion
are
they
;
as
nature
hath
placed
these
as
t
were
in
no
certaine
degree
either
of
beastes
or
foules
:
thus
they
for
there
ambiguous
profession
,
may
hardly
be
numbred
among
Christians
in
any
ranck
.
You
haue
seene
the
subiect
of
divisions
briefly
displai'd
;
persons
very
contagious
in
the
Church
,
and
as
Miriam
,
long
since
a
Schismaticke
too
,
leprous
throughout
.
It
is
not
vnseasonable
,
if
therefore
in
my
fourth
point
I
prescribe
the
Apostles
caution
,
which
is
,
first
marke
,
then
avoid
them
.
What
our
Saviour
forespake
touching
false
teachers
,
sheepes
clothing
:
cover'd
ouer
with
a
pretended
shew
both
of
truth
and
zeale
.
Hard
it
is
in
so
neere
a
likelyhood
,
to
discerne
where
they
conforme
to
the
truth
,
and
where
they
breake
off
.
St
Ignatius
for
this
termes
them
sometimes
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
creatures
hauing
though
no
more
,
yet
a
Christian
outside
;
elsewhere
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
exact
and
able
counterfeits
.
Came
they
drest
in
their
proper
shape
,
we
might
the
more
easily
keepe
safe
:
it
were
no
difficult
taske
to
eschew
their
infectious
tenents
.
A
wound
if
open
and
apparant
,
may
be
quickly
cured
;
that
especially
is
dangerous
,
where
the
soare
lies
hid
,
or
the
passage
proues
inuolu'd
.
Well
doe
Schismaticks
conceaue
the
weaknesse
of
their
cause
:
should
they
attempt
to
obtrude
their
falshoods
vpon
the
Church
,
in
their
naked
deformity
,
it
were
a
vaine
designe
.
Errours
be
naturally
displeasing
to
the
vnderstanding
:
whereas
truth
is
no
lesse
outwardly
pleasing
,
then
admirable
in
it selfe
.
Therefore
they
colour
&
varnish
ouer
their
absurdities
with
ounning
deceipt
.
First
,
Another
way
they
haue
of
intermingling
truth
with
errour
;
Amidst
their
discourses
they
craftily
mix
some
drams
of
verity
to
commend
the
rest
;
nay
so
they
doe
more
hurt
and
d●●plier
infect
.
Poyson
if
given
in
wine
or
hony
pierceth
the
veines
with
greater
violence
;
even
thus
falshood
sweetned
with
a
relish
of
truth
,
eats
most
dangerously
into
the
bowels
of
the
Church
.
A
third
devise
is
by
faigning
of
some
good
intent
;
whilst
they
labour
a
breach
in
christianity
,
More
shifts
besides
they
skill
of
to
obscure
their
malitious
drifts
.
There
want
not
infinite
tractlesse
mazes
,
wherein
they
can
lurke
vndiscerned
;
so
as
what
a
petty
historian
speakes
of
the
Ligurians
inhabiting
bogs
and
bushy
places
.
Maior
aliquanto
labor
erat
invenire
quàm
vincere
,
may
be
here
applied
.
It
is
easier
to
convince
their
errours
,
then
perfectly
trace
it
out
.
Not
in
vaine
then
are
we
bid
to
marke
:
obserue
we
ought
their
subtle
passages
,
mudding
still
the
streame
wheresoer'e
they
goe
;
neither
yet
is
this
enough
;
after
we
haue
thus
descried
their
falshoods
,
we
must
also
avoid
and
shun
them
;
what
communion
hath
light
with
darknesse
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
2.
Cor.
6.
In
the
1.
of
Gen.
v.
4.
no
sooner
had
God
created
light
,
but
in
the
same
v.
he
diuides
them
straight
:
wee
are
though
not
light
,
yet
the
children
of
light
,
and
therefore
must
be
carefull
,
least
by
mixing
with
the
sonnes
of
errour
,
our
light
be
dim'd
and
weakned
.
How
seriously
diligent
were
the
primitiue
Fathers
in
declining
such
?
How
watchfull
to
represse
them
?
Should
I
here
recount
their
various
edicts
and
provisoes
framed
therevpon
,
I
might
happily
make
more
vse
of
reading
,
then
of
moderation
and
iudgement
;
Only
for
a
tast
;
you
may
from
the
course
of
Ecclesiasticall
stories
gather
a
treble
censure
thus
disposed
.
First
they
inflicted
vpon
them
abstension
,
or
(
as
I
may
say
)
incommunication
with
the
Church
:
Next
a
positiue
eiection
,
else
deposition
from
their
clericall
degree
;
at
length
if
both
these
reclaim'd
them
not
,
the
vtter
Anathema
;
Adde
here
to
those
seuerer
cautions
of
the
Apostolicke
Synode
;
that
men
rightly
orthodox
might
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
not
ioyne
in
prayer
with
such
,
Can.
44.
of
the
Laodicean
,
not
to
deale
with
them
or
vse
commerce
,
Can.
57.
So
carefull
were
those
ancient
sages
,
least
a
contagious
Schismaticke
,
if
let
alone
,
might
perchance
infect
the
whole
Christian
flocke
.
It
may
be
in
former
times
there
appeared
greater
danger
.
About
the
first
plantation
of
the
Gospell
,
we
finde
in
truth
heresies
more
rife
and
frequent
;
Satan
was
then
most
busie
,
that
he
might
choak
vp
the
word
before
it
tooke
sure
root
.
Thus
Mat.
13.
25.
the
envious
one
presently
sowes
his
cockle
,
as
soone
as
the
owner
had
ended
.
Notwithstanding
although
such
Church
diseases
be
now
lesse
pregnant
,
yet
are
they
poysonous
still
alike
.
A
mixing
of
things
vnwholsome
with
pure
,
corrupts
as
much
as
ere
it
did
.
Neither
doe
I
(
mistake
me
not
)
prescribe
so
extreame
a
course
as
the
ancients
vsed
.
It
is
a
point
both
aboue
my
skill
and
place
:
only
I
wish
that
alwaies
disturbers
,
of
what
kinde
soeuer
,
if
not
in
person
,
yet
in
doctrine
be
shunned
;
that
we
take
heed
least
by
a
seeming
furtherance
of
the
faith
,
they
hinder
its
growth
.
At
the
fourth
of
Ezra
when
the
people
of
the
land
desired
to
helpe
the
Israelites
in
rebuilding
the
temple
,
they
would
not
,
Yee
haue
nothing
to
doe
with
vs
to
build
an
house
,
v.
3.
Happily
they
guessed
that
for
laying
one
stone
,
they
might
maliciously
plucke
downe
two
.
You
knowe
the
fable
of
the
home-bred
wolfe
:
vnder
colour
of
keeping
the
sheepe
,
hee
made
more
hauock
in
the
fold
then
the
Wolfes
abroad
.
A
doubtfull
zeale
is
most
dangerous
when
thus
it
gets
a
handsome
disguise
.
It
is
to
bee
feared
,
that
such
may
doe
more
mischeife
,
then
the
adversary
from
without
.
I
haue
laid
before
you
at
length
a
full
view
of
Schismes
:
their
nature
and
property
:
their
subiect
and
how
they
must
bee
avoided
;
now
because
one
opposite
shines
more
cleerely
in
anothers
presence
,
it
is
not
amisse
that
contrariwise
in
my
last
point
I
handle
the
mutuall
agreement
of
true
professours
,
or
as
it
is
here
their
Brotherhood
.
We
read
concerning
the
divisions
of
Reuben
,
First
,
for
the
vnderstanding
,
hauing
receaued
one
spirit
,
they
must
needs
conspire
in
one
meaning
and
sense
:
they
differ
not
,
as
being
by
the
same
teacher
instructed
.
Indeed
no
marvaile
if
Schismaticks
doe
iarr
,
whom
their
own
affections
or
satan
diversly
instructs
:
but
the
Disciples
of
verity
,
though
many
,
yet
bee
they
as
organs
tuned
by
an
individuall
spirit
.
Neither
is
there
a
more
constant
euidence
of
the
truth
professed
,
then
such
consent
;
Iudicious
interpreters
of
the
sacred
writ
thence
especially
inferre
,
that
the
Prophets
wrot
inspir'de
;
Each
where
they
doe
so
miraculously
concurre
,
Secondly
,
neither
yet
are
orthodox
professours
thus
onely
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
but
likewise
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
not
alone
sympathizing
in
iudgement
,
but
also
in
heart
;
Loue
and
vnamity
were
euer
a
most
Christian-like
note
.
Looke
but
into
the
course
of
former
ages
,
and
you
will
easily
grant
as
much
.
Concerning
the
Apostles
time
,
what
ardency
of
good
will
finde
we
there
?
with
what
affection
did
they
mutually
imbrace
?
Lands
and
goods
lay
then
in
common
:
the
whole
Church
may
seeme
no
other
then
one
great
family
.
As
in
the
building
of
Solomons
temple
not
any
hammer
or
iron
toole
was
vsed
that
made
a
noise
;
1.
Reg.
6.
Thus
they
labour'd
iointly
in
founding
the
Gospell
,
wihtout
all
malice
or
clamorous
strife
.
Afterwards
wee
finde
this
holy
zeale
no
whit
abated
;
still
in
succeeding
times
,
as
persecutions
waxt
hotter
,
the
Christians
loue
grew
more
enflamed
.
To
manifest
which
,
least
it
might
languish
if
conceal'd
,
how
many
signes
of
expression
had
they
?
witnesse
there
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
feasts
of
loue
:
there
osculum
pacis
after
their
sacred
meetings
:
yea
osculum
baptismi
at
their
admittance
into
the
Church
:
lastly
their
panem
vnanimitatis
,
as
Paulinus
to
Austin
intimateth
;
a
token
commonly
annext
and
sent
with
their
letters
to
expresse
their
ioint
consolidation
into
the
same
body
of
Christ
;
As
for
hatred
and
malice
,
such
vngodly
motions
,
they
may
seeme
as
free
,
as
we
their
of-spring
now
stand
guilty
.
Yet
what
wonder
is
it
if
thus
reciprocally
they
maintained
charity
?
For
first
(
you
know
)
among
all
virtues
this
takes
place
:
without
it
martyrdome
it selfe
availeth
not
,
1.
Cor.
13.
Lumbard
so
farre
extols
it
,
as
to
make
it
touching
the
exercise
an
immediate
act
of
the
spirit
:
whereas
other
divine
graces
acknowledge
their
proper
habits
.
How
truely
he
doth
this
I
meane
not
to
examine
;
only
you
see
what
a
glorious
conceit
he
had
of
this
vertue
aboue
the
rest
.
Againe
,
such
loue
greatly
strengthens
each
where
the
Christian
zeale
:
it
conserues
as
it
were
religion
warme
and
frolick
.
Ignatius
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Ephesians
discoursing
to
this
purpose
,
tells
them
that
it
would
keepe
them
more
secure
euen
from
Satans
assaults
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
&c.
all
assronts
(
saith
he
)
of
those
spirituall
enimyes
be
this
way
lessened
:
ioine
they
but
hearts
,
sinne
it selfe
would
finde
an
harder
inlet
.
Once
more
,
no
marvaile
if
orthodox
Christians
affect
this
concord
,
since
our
Saviour
himselfe
so
much
commends
it
;
whenas
hee
who
is
the
author
of
peace
appeares
so
vrgent
a
teacher
thereof
.
In
the
13.
of
Io.
he
makes
it
the
very
marke
and
badge
of
his
:
By
this
shall
all
men
knowe
that
you
are
my
Disciples
,
&
.
v.
35
In
the
14.
C.
being
now
to
suffer
,
he
bequeaths
it
them
for
their
only
legacy
,
My
peace
I
leaue
you
,
v.
27.
with
great
earnestnesse
he
enioines
that
,
which
long
since
was
commended
to
the
Church
vnder
a
type
;
Noahs
doue
hauing
circled
the
waters
too
and
fro
,
returnes
not
empty
;
yet
brings
shee
for
a
token
of
the
floods
decrease
,
no
other
testimony
into
the
arke
,
the
figure
of
the
Church
,
then
an
Oliue
leafe
;
a
leafe
which
is
the
vsuall
signe
of
loue
and
concord
;
hence
the
Apostle
more
expresly
,
Rom.
10.
15.
deciphers
the
Church
vnder
name
of
the
Oliue
.
You
perceiue
by
this
a
little
better
the
fowlnesse
of
Schismes
:
how
vgly
they
be
apart
,
yet
more
if
opposed
to
vnity
:
giue
mee
now
leaue
but
to
set
downe
some
few
rules
,
as
well
for
the
aduancing
of
the
one
,
as
the
repressing
of
the
other
,
and
I
will
end
.
First
then
,
it
were
well
if
men
did
meddle
lesse
in
needlesse
points
besides
the
faith
:
were
they
not
ouer-busie
there
,
where
they
may
shew
more
wit
,
then
promote
the
Gospell
.
The
orthodox
religion
stands
now
betwixt
Papistry
and
Semi-pelagianisme
,
as
the
Platonicke
sect
did
once
betweene
the
Epicureans
and
the
Stoicks
;
Or
2ly
,
if
some
must
needs
be
dealing
else-where
,
would
they
could
but
keepe
their
opinions
conceal'd
;
not
presse
vpon
the
Church
for
currant
whatsoeuer
themselues
haue
fancied
;
Paracelsus
hauing
grounded
himselfe
strongly
in
naturall
magicke
,
afterward
in
all
his
conclusions
ascribes
ouer
much
to
that
;
with
him
Adam
&
Methuselah
liued
so
long
not
without
some
helpe
of
Chymicall
extracts
;
Vpon
like
grounds
Agrippa
among
others
his
foppish
notions
,
But
suppose
a
Schisme
be
once
on
foote
,
the
speediest
way
for
redresse
may
seeme
;
First
a
serious
yet
ciuill
debatement
:
when
men
shall
enter
the
lists
as
willing
to
yeeld
,
if
pechance
convinc't
,
as
to
refuse
the
assaylant
;
hot
and
furious
disputes
doe
seldome
good
;
amidst
the
noise
of
such
conuiciating
iarres
,
the
the
truth
is
scarcely
heard
.
The
discussion
of
doubtfull
points
resembles
much
the
smiting
of
a
flint
;
a
gentle
and
well
poys'de
stroke
procures
some
sparkes
;
whereas
a
boisterous
collision
,
gets
no
fire
,
but
breakes
the
stone
;
Iust
so
in
point
of
controversie
:
a
civill
hadling
brings
it
to
an
issue
straight
;
contrariwise
an
impetuous
wrangling
inflicts
happily
some
staine
on
either
party
,
yet
nothing
cleeres
the
argument
.
Vnwisely
then
deale
they
who
fly
out
into
such
a
distempered
vehemency
;
Insteed
of
a
sober
and
vsefull
debatement
they
raise
a
personall
brawle
;
they
ttauerse
not
at
length
the
truth
,
but
their
owne
cause
.
It
was
the
noted
fault
of
Marcellus
a
Rhetoritian
that
lighting
on
a
figure
,
Gaal
,
Thou
seest
the
shadowes
of
mountaines
as
if
they
were
men
,
Iudg.
9.
36.
they
bestow
much
fruitlesse
paines
in
confuting
such
notions
as
themselues
haue
fram'de
amisse
.
But
a
way
with
such
misprision
:
such
rouing
encounters
;
it
is
a
more
probable
course
,
if
,
as
I
said
,
they
neither
shall
ouer
roughly
dispute
the
cause
,
nor
yet
suspitiously
make
it
worse
.
A
second
helpe
here
may
bee
the
vse
of
Synodicall
conuents
:
conuents
which
are
no
lesse
apt
to
represse
falshood
,
then
establish
a
receiued
truth
in
the
mindes
of
people
.
The
Romans
of
old
when
any
more
fatall
danger
approached
,
did
wontedly
maintaine
their
standing
Senate
;
how
much
rather
in
a
Christian
state
appeares
some
like
proiect
needfull
:
where
sinne
and
error
make
a
daily
inrode
.
Our
forefathers
therefore
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
may
seeme
indeede
in
such
meetings
very
frequent
;
euery
yeare
twice
,
about
Lent
and
antumne
they
ordained
councels
provincially
to
be
held
.
Hereby
they
weeded
as
it
were
and
cut
vp
errour
in
its
first
appearance
:
no
sooner
could
it
sprout
forth
,
before
it
procured
strength
,
some
decree
or
other
straight
waies
cropt
it
;
Satan
you
know
that
old
Serpent
is
the
father
of
schismes
:
nay
he
was
by
a
voluntary
discession
from
God
simply
the
prime
Schismaticke
;
A
snake
or
serpent
if
he
can
get
but
his
head
into
a
crany
,
scrues
&
wreaths
in
his
whole
body
after
with
no
hard
paine
:
on
this
manner
error
;
by
reason
of
its
Serpentine
nature
,
vnlesse
at
first
repelled
,
threatens
a
dangerous
progresse
;
Councels
then
in
this
case
be
greatly
available
;
of
soueraine
helpe
,
if
thus
seasonably
applied
;
such
a
meeting
of
reuerent
sages
must
needs
if
not
refell
,
at
least
discountenance
a
crept
in
falshood
.
The
last
remedy
shall
bee
a
serious
aduise
;
That
men
would
duely
consider
how
by
Schismes
they
would
afresh
the
body
of
Christ
;
how
they
make
the
wonted
fold
a
coate
of
raueuing
wolues
.
Hermes
somewhere
termes
malitiousnesse
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
the
foode
or
worlds
repast
;
let
not
,
oh
let
not
the
same
be
said
concerning
the
Church
it selfe
;
Weigh
likewise
hereto
the
vnknowne
and
doubtfull
euent
of
such
debates
,
The
Collator
in
Prosper
begins
fairely
and
as
a
moderate
pelagian
,
but
ere
three
pages
are
past
leauing
Pelagianisme
,
he
becomes
flat
Atheist
.
Vnnecessary
disputes
neuer
remaine
in
that
state
of
moderation
,
in
which
they
were
at
first
raised
;
like
floods
they
gaine
encrease
from
their
continued
and
lasting
course
;
especially
if
there
happen
(
though
I
hope
not
)
such
as
dispense
them
secretly
&
of
purpose
to
some
farther
end
:
When
Hannibal
mainely
intended
Rome
he
tooke
in
Saguntum
(
saith
the
historian
)
onely
by
the
way
;
I
haue
done
with
my
text
;
a
subiect
I
confesse
somewhat
to
high
for
me
,
and
deseruing
a
more
graue
and
learned
pen
;
such
an
one
wherein
they
should
chiefly
labour
,
who
are
as
able
for
skill
,
as
effectuall
in
power
and
place
.
Truth
is
then
most
persuasiue
,
when
thus
abetted
:
but
as
Elihu
tooke
courage
to
aduise
Iob
,
though
after
his
elders
:
to
shew
his
opinion
also
;
Iob.
22.
v.
10.
euen
so
haue
I
done
.
Wisdome
is
of
God
,
and
oft
times
hee
worketh
no
lesse
through
weake
meanes
,
then
by
strong
and
potent
.
Howsoeuer
I
thought
it
not
besides
the
duety
of
the
meanest
Leuite
,
if
now
he
stretcht
forth
his
hand
to
vpholde
the
arke
:
if
for
my
part
likewise
I
endeauourde
the
Churches
vnity
,
my
only
drift
.
And
now
O
Lord
doe
thou
build
vp
those
breaches
in
the
wals
of
our
Ierusalem
,
which
by
Schismes
haue
long
since
beene
made
;
giue
vs
externall
peace
,
that
so
the
better
wee
may
procure
that
inward
of
minde
,
and
in
fine
enioy
eternall
with
thee
.
To
God
the
Father
,
&c.
FINIS
.